Actor Michael Keaton would like to have a different name.

Originally born Michael Douglas, the “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice” star told PEOPLE how he had to change his birth name when he started acting because another prominent Hollywood talent, Academy Award winner and “Wall Street” star Michael Douglas, was already using it. As noted by CNN, the Screen Actors Guild does not allow two actors to use the same name.

“I was flipping through — I can’t remember if it was a phone book,” Keaton told PEOPLE about how he chose his more familiar surname. “I must have thought, ‘I don’t know, let me make something up.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, that sounds reasonable.'”

Keaton also shared that he planned to use his first name in his recent film, “Know Goes Away,” which he directed and starred in. “I said, ‘Hey, just as a heads up, my credit goes to Michael Keaton Douglas.’ And it completely slipped my mind,” he said. “And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create it. But that’s going to happen.”